#GameofThrones –“The production team is amazing. The actors are amazing. The writing team are… lazy – and maybe artistically, culturally, and morally criminal. To put it mildly”–
Source date (UTC): 2019-04-30 01:33:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1123037656290660353
#GameofThrones Well, showrunners pulled a Matrix and destroyed the entire accumulated mythos in favor of shallow girl power and deus ex machina, rather than the hard choices foretold in the legends. Ten years of depth. One shallow episode. History will not judge it well.
Source date (UTC): 2019-04-29 15:48:47 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1122890478414901248
peterson zizek – two liberals neither of which understands the data or economics arguing about the obvious at paper thin depth…. fking painful.
Source date (UTC): 2019-04-20 23:21:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1119742829977190400
I don’t understand zizek’s popularity. He tells a lot of stories but he doesn’t say anything at all. On the few occasions that he does it’s trivial.
Source date (UTC): 2019-04-20 01:08:43 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1119407514792099840
I don’t like ‘debates’ because outside of upper academic circles, they’re not worth my time, largely because activists are overcommitted to their near universally faulty priors. I do however love conversations. And conversations with smart people are helpful for the audience.
Source date (UTC): 2019-04-17 16:25:32 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1118551073101373441
Reply addressees: @TsarOfNEETs @JoeRossRanchFan @ethnarch_
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@curtdoolittle @JoeRossRanchFan @ethnarch_ He’s a rotating cohost on FtN. Very thoughtful and knowledgeable. It would be a a great, honest debate between you two (if it were to happen)
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I have read ABOUT him.I have read passages by him (posts). I have read reviews of his books by others. I have not read his books. And I don’t really have cause to because unlike him I am not an apologist and have no desire to be. 😉 He still makes excuses for semitism. I don’t.
Source date (UTC): 2019-04-07 18:27:01 UTC
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(FB 1541782388 Timestamp) THE PROBLEM OF CONSERVATIVE MORALISM by John Mark The comments on this post about nonwhite voters are a fantastic example of moralistic wishful thinking (by right wingers). https://www.facebook.com/218472611857878/posts/718933205145147/ “I am/know a Hispanic/black who votes Red!” (Anecdotal) “The non-whites are learning and abandoning the Left! Polls said Trump’s approval among blacks was up!” (Midterm voting stats say otherwise) “Don’t be racist!” (Moralistic losing strategy) “We can teach them!” (Zero evidence that is true on large scale) “We have to retake control of education!” (How, exactly? Not realistic within current system) “Whites have to have more babies!” (We are not going to outbreed the hordes. Not realistic.) “We have to move into blue areas and turn them purple!” (Literally no one is going to carry out this strategy.)
(FB 1541780322 Timestamp) ON THE MILITARY’S ABILITY TO CONTROL A REVOLUTION (from elsewhere) Of course I’ll disagree with him, and so will anyone who looks a the locations of the troops, their numbers the BIAS of those troops, the numbers of the police, and first responders, the size of the territory, the number of worldwide assets that have to be protected from hostile external factors, the fragility of the system, and the success WORLDWIDE OF EVERY 5GW revolutionary force. Look at Syria, the Arab Spring, Yemen, the problem Iran has, turkey had, the fragility of the american grids, the dependence of urban underclasses on availability of cash, food, and digital transfers. The zero savings of the population…. I mean. the entire american experiment is dependent upon maintaining economic velocity that we currently refer to as just-in-time production and distribution due to plentiful information and extremely low cost transportation. There is very little electricity, heat, food, water, and such in the supply chain. Especially if actors function in winter, entire cities can be depopulated in weeks. I mean. It’s not like it takes millions in the streets. Man-on-man warfare went out with napoleon. Industrial warfare went out with the 1990’s. Today it’s just ‘break some infrastructure’ and let population density and the fragility of the supply chain do the work of turning people into rabid animals the male underclass of which will prey on the rest. As an example, one building can consume the fire departments of multiple cities. What if in the same city someone started 100 of those fires? What if that were done while breaking hydrant heads and losing the water pressure to fight the fire? Everyone thinks of millions in the streets but what I learned in ukraine is that 100 people can do all the fighting and just fall back into those people in the streets, in homes, in workplaces, and the state cannot pursue them. I mean, I am not the only person who has studied enough on this subject to make these statements. The military can ONLY concentrate force. There are only 2m. Of those 2m who will sympathize with the state if we offer a solution that restores military influence in the state, and improves the conditions of the soldiers? So the question is, not whether you have some ‘spastic’ uprising. The question is whether you position demands THAT PEOPLE WANT ANYWAY and drive those demands such that the state resists, but he military and police AGREE WITH THEM.
(FB 1541782388 Timestamp) THE PROBLEM OF CONSERVATIVE MORALISM by John Mark The comments on this post about nonwhite voters are a fantastic example of moralistic wishful thinking (by right wingers). https://www.facebook.com/218472611857878/posts/718933205145147/ “I am/know a Hispanic/black who votes Red!” (Anecdotal) “The non-whites are learning and abandoning the Left! Polls said Trump’s approval among blacks was up!” (Midterm voting stats say otherwise) “Don’t be racist!” (Moralistic losing strategy) “We can teach them!” (Zero evidence that is true on large scale) “We have to retake control of education!” (How, exactly? Not realistic within current system) “Whites have to have more babies!” (We are not going to outbreed the hordes. Not realistic.) “We have to move into blue areas and turn them purple!” (Literally no one is going to carry out this strategy.)
(FB 1541780322 Timestamp) ON THE MILITARY’S ABILITY TO CONTROL A REVOLUTION (from elsewhere) Of course I’ll disagree with him, and so will anyone who looks a the locations of the troops, their numbers the BIAS of those troops, the numbers of the police, and first responders, the size of the territory, the number of worldwide assets that have to be protected from hostile external factors, the fragility of the system, and the success WORLDWIDE OF EVERY 5GW revolutionary force. Look at Syria, the Arab Spring, Yemen, the problem Iran has, turkey had, the fragility of the american grids, the dependence of urban underclasses on availability of cash, food, and digital transfers. The zero savings of the population…. I mean. the entire american experiment is dependent upon maintaining economic velocity that we currently refer to as just-in-time production and distribution due to plentiful information and extremely low cost transportation. There is very little electricity, heat, food, water, and such in the supply chain. Especially if actors function in winter, entire cities can be depopulated in weeks. I mean. It’s not like it takes millions in the streets. Man-on-man warfare went out with napoleon. Industrial warfare went out with the 1990’s. Today it’s just ‘break some infrastructure’ and let population density and the fragility of the supply chain do the work of turning people into rabid animals the male underclass of which will prey on the rest. As an example, one building can consume the fire departments of multiple cities. What if in the same city someone started 100 of those fires? What if that were done while breaking hydrant heads and losing the water pressure to fight the fire? Everyone thinks of millions in the streets but what I learned in ukraine is that 100 people can do all the fighting and just fall back into those people in the streets, in homes, in workplaces, and the state cannot pursue them. I mean, I am not the only person who has studied enough on this subject to make these statements. The military can ONLY concentrate force. There are only 2m. Of those 2m who will sympathize with the state if we offer a solution that restores military influence in the state, and improves the conditions of the soldiers? So the question is, not whether you have some ‘spastic’ uprising. The question is whether you position demands THAT PEOPLE WANT ANYWAY and drive those demands such that the state resists, but he military and police AGREE WITH THEM.